I bet there are not many!How many SSPX’ers (for lack of a better term) are there anyway?
In the US?
In the world?
1,000,000 worldwide, maybe 2,000,000???
Does anyone have an idea or an actual source that lists such numbers?
Thanks!
Just keep praying that both thrive. Sometimes the approved diocesan mass is there just to take away from the SSPX and when the SSPX is driven out, the TLM is removed from the diocese.I guess “many” is a subjective term.
I gather about 100 people attend the SSPX Mass here in Glasgow every Sunday. Meanwhile, about two miles away, there is a licit Tridentine Mass at the exact same time, attended by 20-30 people a week. This puzzles me and troubles me. I think that part of it is that some people like to go where there are more people. They feel more supported, that way.
I’ve been told that the SSPX chapel is attended by several families with young children. As a mother of two young children, I know that I feel more comfortable when I see other children in attendance. I don’t want to have the only fussy baby in the room, ya know?
When I went to the licit Mass for the first time, yesterday, I went by myself. My husband and I have decided to throw our lot in with that parish, and we’ll be taking the kids. I’ve heard that another couple occassionally comes with children. Perhaps there will be a family in the future who will see us and think, “OK, we’re welcome here” and stay, rather than go on down the street to the SSPX.
Does it matter? What’s the point?Does anyone know???
Is it 2,000,000 worldwide? Or much, much less.
Well I don’t know worldwide, I found this on the SSPX website:How many SSPX’ers (for lack of a better term) are there anyway?
In the US?
In the world?
1,000,000 worldwide, maybe 2,000,000???
Does anyone have an idea or an actual source that lists such numbers?
Thanks!
It’s a valid question posted in the correct forum. It matters the same way diocean statistics matter.Does it matter? What’s the point?
The point is I’d like to know. With all the discussion on the SSPX it seems at first that they are significant group, but in reality it appears that they are so small in number as to be rather insignificant. I know it would be good if they resolved their schismatic movement, but it really doesn’t seem to affect too many people.Does it matter? What’s the point?
I did a not too terribly effective count four our country at one time, rather laboriously and pedantically following SSPX links to each and every chapel in the US that had a website or a connection. For example, go here:The point is I’d like to know. With all the discussion on the SSPX it seems at first that they are significant group, but in reality it appears that they are so small in number as to be rather insignificant. I know it would be good if they resolved their schismatic movement, but it really doesn’t seem to affect too many people.
A member of SSPX would use that against you. The only SSPX person I know likes to quote Jesus who asked if there will be anyone of faith when he returns. My SSPX friend says that there will be but" a remant of the faithful "when Christ returns.I find the question very relevant. While numbers are not the only measure of truth, one would think that after half a century passes and the SSPX, as well as sedecavantists, remain but the merest sliver of the Church, one must question if their dissent is of the Holy Spirit.
I know, but then I would point out that the remnant agument is used by almost every cult I have known of. I think it also shows the psychology of why some are attracted to the SSPX. There is an inherent attraction to being on of an elite group.A member of SSPX would use that against you. The only SSPX person I know likes to quote Jesus who asked if there will be anyone of faith when he returns. My SSPX friend says that there will be but" a remant of the faithful "when Christ returns.
Of course he believes that that remnant is the SSPX.
Do all SSPX believe that? I do not know any others. But to say that the SSPX is a “merest sliver of the Church” is actually bolstering their beliefs.
I think it would be very difficult to count them. First, you’d have agree on who is an SSPX “member”. Some people attend their masses just because it’s the only TLM around, but they don’t agree with the SSPXs teachings. Are they to be counted with the SSPX? Other people probably follow the SSPX ideology, but don’t have an SSPX mass nearby, so they don’t regularly atttend SSPX masses. How would you find and count and classify all these people?I find it very odd that no one has counted the SSPX…including the SSPX. Perhaps their numbers are far lower than they would like us to believe.
Let’s say, everyone who attends at SSPX Masses. That might artficially inflate their numbers a bit but who cares. I’m just curious if we are talking 50,000 people worldwide…or 5 million. I also find it extraordinarily odd that nowhere in any of their writings, does the SSPX make any claim to a certain number of people. I suspect that is probably because their actual numbers are so small.I think it would be very difficult to count them. First, you’d have agree on who is an SSPX “member”. Some people attend their masses just because it’s the only TLM around, but they don’t agree with the SSPXs teachings. Are they to be counted with the SSPX? Other people probably follow the SSPX ideology, but don’t have an SSPX mass nearby, so they don’t regularly atttend SSPX masses. How would you find and count and classify all these people?
A fascinating theory. Can you provide any documentation to support such a claim?Sometimes the approved diocesan mass is there just to take away from the SSPX and when the SSPX is driven out, the TLM is removed from the diocese.
Dear Brother/Sister, Sure.I find it very odd that no one has counted the SSPX…including the SSPX. Perhaps their numbers are far lower than they would like us to believe.